SERIOUS WRECK.
Press Association. —Copyright. PARIS, May 9. -The French steamer Poittof, from Marseilles to Buenos Ayres, was wrecked at Cape Santa Maria in a gale. The passengers were chiefly Spanish emigrants. Many became panic-stricken, and tried to swim ashore. Fifteen were drowned. Two hundred were saved. Nearly a hundred women were battened down below at the moment of the disaster. The work of rescue is proceeding.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2076, 10 May 1907, Page 2
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